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Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century.

Photo by Kevin Wilbraham.

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[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s a berserker, an early chess piece that could move like a queen and knight combined, three times at once, and captured everything within a three-square radius. For obvious reasons, it was soon replaced by pieces with more reasonable restrictions.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I heard they tried nerfing it, by letting it die after his first turn, but it was still way to op.